What good does bitcoin or nostr do if there’s no internet or electricity?
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They incentivise getting the electricity back on - good money & good communication.
They incentivise getting the electricity and the internet back on - good money & good communication.
I do not know how to use mesh nets through Bluetooth to create a pseudo internet. I've heard that's the solution.
Yeah, without electricity a lot of a lot of things are very difficult.
I have solar panels, but they are primarially used for the fridge and freezer when the power is down.
As for mesh networks, I have a project that quickly sets up a mesh network from hardware that geeks have lying around the house (old laptops, raspberry pi boxes, etc.). It's very experimental, but it does work. With more contributions, it could work much better.
I'd like to combine the mesh with a lightning node and see how far I can get! I feel like if I can transfer money around, even if it is just in my local community, without the internet, that would be amazing.
That's amazing. Is the code in a repo on github????
It's public on GitLab. https://gitlab.com/adam949/guerrilla-radio
So far the focus has been extending a wired network, but I have a branch that I was trying to make it completely standalone.
I haven't worked on it in a while, but if there is interest, I could probably make time for it. I could at least make time to answer questions and review merge requests.
That's amazing. Time with family and career is definitely a motha. I'll check it out homie
Security cameras and alarms don’t work either?